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Ken Brociner
Ken Brociner‘s essays and book reviews have appeared in Dissent, In These Times and Israel Horizons. He also has a biweekly column in the Somerville (Mass.) Journal.
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Progressive Blind Spots
Since its formation in 1997, the Campaign for America's Future (CAF) has been one of the progressive movement's least more »
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Israel and the Klein Doctrine
The recent meeting between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu highlighted the difficulty of untying more »
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The Cuban Revolution and the American Left
For countless leftists who came of age politically sometime between the late 1950s and the early 1990s, the more »
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Israel, Gaza and the Left
One of the left's most significant ideological failings in recent years has been its habit of issuing shrill more »
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Moving Forward Without Dogma
Despite the severity of the current economic crisis, the morale of the progressive movement remains sky high. Liberals, more »
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Old Dreams, Present Opportunities
I have been doing a lot of soul searching as this momentous election has drawn closer. Of all more »
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Internationalism and the Progressive Movement
One of the finest traditions of the American left has been its historic commitment to solidarity with the more »
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Does a Nationwide ‘Progressive Movement’ Actually Exist?
George W. Bush will go down in history as one of this country's worst presidents ever. But there more »
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Dogmatic Rhetoric is Self-Defeating
Martha Biondi and James Thindwa's viewpoint, "Earth to Ken Brociner," does start out with a clever title – that more »
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What Progressives Can Learn from Obama
One of the trademarks of Barack Obama's presidential campaign has been his commitment to a new style of more »
